While
every effort has been made to make sure this electronic syllabus is error-free,
it is not official.The definitive source of course information remains the original (paper)
syllabus distributed in class.

Fall 2005Chemistry 220 Lycoming College

Fall 2005 Organic Chemistry 1 Lycoming College

Course description
- This course is designed to introduce the student to the chemistry of alkanes,
alkenes, alkynes, and alkyl halides. The approach will be both mechanistically
and synthetically oriented. The laboratory component of this course will
involve the basic techniques of synthetic organic chemistry.

Recitations
– Problem solving sessions will be built into class time. We will also have a
weekly help session in the evening (starting week 2).

Assigned homework
- Problems designed to enhance your understanding and prepare you for testing
situations. A key will be posted on the web. Homework will not be collected.

Laboratory
- M: 7:45 – 11:35 pm; Tuesday, N: 1:00 – 4:50 pm, Tuesday; Q: 7:45 – 11:35 pm,
Thursday, HBC 220, 234. Attendance required. Here you will experience what
chemists actually do. Your labwork will be evaluated as described in the lab
syllabus as well as on the lecture exams. Approximately 5% of each exam will be
drawn from the labwork. A lab syllabus will be distributed at the first lab
session. Make sure and show up with your $10 lab deposit (cash only) that first
week. Meet at 9:30 for morning lab sections this first week.

Grading scheme

a.The final grade is based on the number of points obtained out of a
possible 600 points. The points will be distributed as follows:

Biographical
info 5 points
(1%)

quizzes
70 points (11%)

exam
1 100
points (16%)

exam
2 100
points (16%)

exam
3 100
points (16%)

final exam
(cumulative)* 120 points (20%)

laboratory120 points (20%)

total615 points (100%)

*a higher score on
the final exam can be used to replace a lower score from exam 1-3.

As always you will
have the opportunity to obtain bonus points through attendance at our colloquium
series. Assuming you stay for the whole show and follow the guidelines below
you will receive 3 points per colloquium. You may also receive up to 6 bonus
points by writing a paper on a topic that we have mutually agreed upon (2-3
pages, typewritten, double spaced, with a minimum of 2 bibliographic sources.
The ceiling on bonus points (excluding bio assignment and those on exams) is 12.

Guidelines for
Attending Colloquium:

i. Be on time

ii. The speaker
has expended a lot of effort to prepare for the talk. Be attentive and polite.

iii. If you can’t
stay for 45 minutes for an internal speaker or 60 minutes for an external
speaker, don’t come (please do not ask the speaker how long the talk will last).

iv. Realize that
questions for the speaker at the end is part of the talk and you will be
expected to stay for that as well.

c.
A word about learning chemistry. Studying chemistry is hard work for most
people (this is certainly true for me). I would recommend that you work on the
lecture material at least one hour per day outside of class for
starters. Once you see how things are going this amount can be adjusted as
needed (I suggest a significant increase in study time prior to an exam). If
you are having trouble, make sure and come and see me. I’m easy to talk to and
will do whatever I can to help you. You will be responsible for all of the
material listed on the following schedule for the indicated exams and quizzes.
It is not sufficient to learn the material from the lecture alone. You are
expected to read and think about the material prior to the lecture. We must
necessarily cover a large amount of material so our pace must be geared towards
those who are ready to learn. The hour exams will be somewhat cumulative in the
sense that we need to know the earlier material to comprehend the latter.

d.Web-based
supplements:
There is a website for this course which includes homework keys (primarily from
the text), extra problems keys (homemade problems), sample exams from the last
time I taught this course, and study guides at:

Attendance at quizzes
and exams is mandatory. Makeups will be administered only if I deem the reason
for absence to be legitimate and I am made aware of the absence beforehand.
Each documented, unexcused lecture absence beyond the first two will cost you
one point from your total.

Lycoming CollegeOrganic Chemistry 1 Fall
2005

Schedule

“Organic Chemistry
nowadays almost drives me mad. To me it appears like a primeval tropical forest
full of the most remarkable things, a dreadful endless jungle into which one
does not dare enter, for there seems no way out.”

GRADING: The lab component
of your grade is 120 points out of the 610 for the course. There will be 9
grades for writeups, 10 points each, for 90 points. A typical grade for a
writeup can be broken down into three parts: content of the writeup (60%),
yield of the product (20%), purity of the product (20%). Late lab writeups will
cost you 5% per school day. Lab writeups cannot be turned in after the
graded labs have been returned. There will also be three 10 point lab quizzes.
Students who do not conform to our notions of laboratory etiquette (Chp. 1, p.
2 in the lab manual) can expect to have points deducted from their lab score.
This can be done either within individual writeups for isolated incidents or as
a deduction from the total score for semester-long offenses. In cases where
common areas of the lab (balances, melting point apparatus.....) are abused or
left messy, an entire lab section may have points deducted.

USEFUL SUPPLEMENTARY
SOURCES: One part of your lab writeup requires you to list several physical
properties for the compounds involved in that particular experiment. This
information can be obtained most conveniently from one of the following:

1) The Merck Index -
located in the lab, the reading room, and the library reference collection
(RS.51);

2) The CRC Handbook of
Chemistry and Physics - located in the lab, the reading room, and the library
reference collection (QD.65);

Tell me about yourself …………… Please include the following info for full
credit –

1. Name and
what you like to be called; Chriss McDonald, you may call me Chriss, Dr. McD,
or Dr. McDonald.

2. Major
(and note whether it is intended or actually declared); As an undergrad (late
70’s) I was actually a medical

technology
major.

3. Minor
(and note whether it is intended or actually declared); An unofficial one in
history.

4. Fr.,
So., Jr., Sr.; Very senior.

5. 4 digit
code for the posting of grades; N/A.

6. Tell me
two interesting/funny things about yourself; I play too many sports and my
body is falling apart. Went to Gettysburg this summer and walked the ground over
which Pickett’s charge occurred.

7. Tell me
about your background in chemistry. I thought chemistry was merely OK until
I got to organic, went bonkers over that. Went to grad school at Miami of Ohio
in synthetic organic chemistry. Still learning lots of cool stuff about

organic
chemistry. I’m interested primarily in the development of new synthetic
methods. Specifically the